Heka

Yes — Heka is a real, operating platform. We verified its signup, payout, and policy pages directly on 2026-11-01 using 7 sources.

Waitlist-only at publish (status pending). The operator, TabAI Inc. (Delaware, 670 2nd St, San Francisco), is a stealth venture whose founder is a high-school student per Kazakhstan press ($35K grant-stage funding; first Central Asian Google grant). On-device anonymization is a genuine privacy positive, but there is no payment proof, no review and no registry confirmation yet.

Not published - session 'Rewards' are sized by how productive the captured work is; the terms explicitly guarantee nothing ('TabAI does not guarantee any minimum number of sessions, hours, earnings, or future reward rates'). Work is billed monthly for passive device data, so earnings scale with volume and acceptance rates.

Undefined publicly - Rewards are 'tokens or credits' converted at rates in the (unpublished) Reward Terms; no provider, currency or payout rail appears on the site. Payout cadence: Threshold-based / Not stated. Minimum payout: The FAQ claims you 'can cash out any time once you cross $10', but the actual currency, method and payment provider are unpublished - the terms defer to non-public 'Reward Terms'.

Minimum age 18 - Contributor Terms Eligibility: 'you are at least 18 years old' (useheka.com/terms). Unstated - the terms require 'you use Heka only in a country that TabAI supports', but no supported-country list is published; sanctioned jurisdictions are excluded by clause. Terms reserve the right to 'verify identity, age, location, tax, payment eligibility, or compliance'; accurate tax information is required; payout verification may be demanded before funds are sent.

Join the email waitlist (access granted in queue order) or redeem an existing user's access code at useheka.com/register - install the macOS app - grant one Accessibility permission - press record; sessions upload as censored contributions and Rewards accrue per session.